The tune to the song 'A Hard Day's Night' was in his head, the words scrawled on a birthday card from a fan to his little son Julian: 'When I get home to you,' it said, 'I find my tiredness is through …' Rather a feeble line about tiredness, I said. One day I picked John up in a taxi and took him to Abbey Road for a recording session. Evening Standard journalist Maureen Cleave described a memorable taxi ride the morning the song was recorded: It took them less than three hours to polish the song for its final release, eventually selecting the ninth take as the one to be released. On 16 April 1964, the Beatles gathered at Studio 2 of the EMI Studios and recorded "A Hard Day's Night". If you notice, in the early days the majority of singles, in the movies and everything, were mine … in the early period I'm dominating the group … The reason Paul sang on 'A Hard Day's Night' (in the bridge) is because I couldn't reach the notes." However, McCartney and others remember McCartney collaborating with Lennon. As he described in his 1980 Playboy interview, "the next morning I brought in the song … 'cuz there was a little competition between Paul and I as to who got the A-side – who got the hits. Lennon dashed off the song in one night, and brought it in for comments the following morning. Shenson then told Lennon that he needed a theme song for the film.
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In an Associated Press report, the producer of the film A Hard Day's Night, Walter Shenson, stated that Lennon described to Shenson some of Starr's funnier gaffes, including "a hard day's night", whereupon Shenson immediately decided that that was going to be the title of the movie (replacing other alternatives, including Beatlemania). In 1996, yet another version of events cropped up. And he said after a concert, 'Phew, it's been a hard day's night.'" So we were sitting around at Twickenham studios having a little brain-storming session … and we said, 'Well, there was something Ringo said the other day.' Ringo would do these little malapropisms, he would say things slightly wrong, like people do, but his were always wonderful, very lyrical … they were sort of magic even though he was just getting it wrong. We'd almost finished making the film, and this fun bit arrived that we'd not known about before, which was naming the film. In a 1994 interview for The Beatles Anthology, however, McCartney disagreed with Lennon's recollections, basically stating that it was the Beatles, and not Lester, who had come up with the idea of using Starr's verbal misstep: "The title was Ringo's. So Dick Lester said, 'We are going to use that title.'" A Ringo-ism, where he said it not to be funny … just said it. I had used it in In His Own Write, but it was an off-the-cuff remark by Ringo. According to Lennon in a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine: "I was going home in the car and Dick Lester suggested the title, 'Hard Day's Night' from something Ringo had said. Starr's statement was the inspiration for the title of the film, which in turn inspired the composition of the song. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, 'It's been a hard day …' and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, '… night!' So we came to 'A Hard Day's Night.'" Starr described it this way in an interview with disc jockey Dave Hull in 1964: "We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we happened to work all night. The song's title originated from something said by Ringo Starr, the Beatles' drummer. The American and British singles of "A Hard Day's Night", as well as both the American and British albums of the same title, held the top position in their respective charts for a couple of weeks in August 1964, the first time any artist had accomplished this feat. The song topped the charts in both the United Kingdom and United States when it was released as a single. The song featured prominently on the soundtrack to the Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night, and was on their album of the same name. It was also released in the UK as a single, with " Things We Said Today" as its B-side. It was released on the film soundtrack of the same name in 1964. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was written by John Lennon, with some collaboration from Paul McCartney. " A Hard Day's Night" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles.
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